Nowadays, there is an increasing number of people who are interested in Chinese culture and language. And it is useful to know about the language when coming to China for travel or business. This is an ABC Chinese course for beginners, including introduction of phonetics and daily expressions. After taking this class, learners can have a basic understanding of Chinese Mandarin and make basic conversations of daily living such as exchanging personal information, talking about daily arrangements and food, asking about price, introducing the city and the weather, telling your hobbies etc. Selected topics and situations come from real life scenarios and can be used for everyday communications. In addition to the dialogues, the selection of reading materials and practice activities will make the content as rich and varied as possible, in order to stimulate the learners’ interests. This is an elementary course on Chinese speaking. The learners don’t need to study Chinese characters, so it is easier to follow and complete this course.

UA

This is fantastic effort from Peking University, for those who want to learn Chines. it just amazing. chines is very interesting language.....where we need to care of even sounds of a sentence......

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Apr 08, 2016

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it was an amazing class. perfect class to take for who works full time. few additional notions every week. the teacher patiently repeats several time ervy sentence to help with pronunciation. Thanks

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Do You Live in a Big City?

Do you live in a big city or a small town? How do you get to work or school every day? In this module, we are going to learn how to give directions and how to speak about transportation. This module is valuable in case you need to talk about directions with a Chinese friend or you need to go somewhere when you are in China.

Ministrado por

Xiaoyu Liu

Associate Professor

Transcrição

[FOREIGN] And this time, let's learn how to ask the way, 'kay? It's very important to find the restroom. So, let's ask, [FOREIGN]. If it's on the right, yeah. [FOREIGN] If you need to go ahead. [FOREIGN] So if you need to show thanks. You can say [FOREIGN] and the answer is [FOREIGN]. So if I say, [FOREIGN], yes, you would say, [FOREIGN]. Sometimes, it's not that easy to find the location. You need to make turns. So we have mentioned this the second day of this week. Let's try that again. [FOREIGN] means toward a direction. [FOREIGN] means ahead, front. [FOREIGN] means to walk, go. So it should be, go toward, ahead of front. So again. Yes there is [FOREIGN] and then go ahead [FOREIGN] then make a turn [FOREIGN]. [FOREIGN] again, toward or to, some direction [FOREIGN] as we learned is right [FOREIGN] means to turn. So you turn toward right direction. [FOREIGN] Okay, let's make another example. I want to know where the underground station is. I will ask [FOREIGN]. If you say, yes there is, [FOREIGN]. First, you go ahead. [FOREIGN] And then, turn left. [FOREIGN]. And then I will say [FOREIGN]. What's your answer? Yes. [FOREIGN] Okay. [FOREIGN]